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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What training site did Paul Tibbets choose to work on his strategy for dropping an atomic bomb in 1944?
(a) Los Alamos, New Mexico.
(b) Wendover, Utah.
(c) Malvern, Nebraska.
(d) Juneau, Alaska.

2. What building had Colonel Leslie Groves overseen the construction of before he was selected to oversee the bomb project?
(a) The White House.
(b) The Pentagon.
(c) The World Trade Center.
(d) The U.S. Senate Chambers.

3. What was the name of the Soviets' secret lab in the pine woods outside Moscow in 1943?
(a) MI-5.
(b) The Los Alamos Ranch School.
(c) Special Training School No. 3.
(d) Laboratory Number 2.

4. Where did Samuel Goudsmit corner physicist Walther Bothe in February of 1945?
(a) Dresden, Germany.
(b) Berlin, Germany.
(c) Zurich, Switzerland.
(d) Heidelbrg, Germany.

5. Where was mathematician Stanislaw Ulam working when he was invited to a project for special war work?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) The University of Wisconsin.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "OSS" stand for?

2. When was Harry Gold born?

3. Where did Tom Black arrange for Harry Gold to take a job in Jersey City in 1933?

4. What date is described in the Prologue of Bomb?

5. Where was Carl Eifler reassigned by OSS director General William Donovan in late 1944?

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